The Taiwan Film Salon programme will be held from December 3 to December 10 in Hanoi, with the event featuring eight outstanding movies from Taiwan (China).
A friend of mine told me that when he was a child, he once won first place in a speech contest. When he presented the award after returning home, his father threw it to the ground, shouting that it was useless.
All his father valued was top performance in exams nothing else mattered.
This obsolete ideology, which prevails in many families in Taiwan, is arguably a legacy of the civil service examination system in imperial China.
At a recent cultural conference, film director Wang Hsiao-ti (王小棣) said: “When the Ministry of Culture reports during the Interministerial Meeting on Cultural
Chicago festival screens Taiwanese short film on cycling tourism
04/19/2021 04:38 PM
Photo courtesy of the Tourism Bureau s office in New York
New York, April 18 (CNA) A microfilm promoting cycling tourism in Taiwan was featured last week at the Asian Pop-Up Cinema (APUC), a semi-annual film festival that aims to foster an appreciation for diverse Asian cultures through film.
The nearly four-minute Go Cycling and Feel the Sensation (台灣,感覺真實的自己) was aired prior to the Taiwanese film Dear Tenant (親愛的房客) at the APUC festival at a drive-in event at Lincoln Yards in Chicago on April 16.
According to the Tourism Bureau, the microfilm was screened to drum up interest in Taiwan among American viewers and promote the country s cycling tourism to the world.
Four Taiwanese films, including the multiple Golden Horse Award-winning movies <i>My Missing Valentine</i> (消失的情人節) and <i>Dear Tenant</i> (親愛的房客), are to make their US premieres at the semi-annual Asian Pop-Up Cinema film festival in Chicago opening today, the Ministry of Culture said on Friday.
For its 12th edition, which runs from today to May 1, the festival would showcase 33 films from Asia in a series of online and drive-in events, the ministry said in a statement.
Among them are five films from Taiwan, which are being presented in collaboration with the Taipei Cultural Center in New York, the ministry said.
They include director